#spammer — Public Fediverse posts

An interesting session in #court against a #spammer this morning. My claim for damages for loss of control of personal data was partly upheld, but more interestingly my proposed contract that further emails would be published on the web at a per-email cost was upheld fully. I made an analogy to parking (i.e. if you park your car on private land, you automatically accept the posted contract, no need to sign it) and the court found that my analogy was correct.

#spam #gdpr #pecr

Assholes Will Always Exist

Over the years they've been called a lot of things. Some of the terms, these miscreants actually donned like a cape or wore the disparaging noun as a badge of honor:

- #cracker
- #list_bully
- #foreign_agent
- #incel
- #phishermen
- #spammer
- #blackhat

The list is truly, much too long to collate in a single fly by topical mention; and that's really not the point of what I'm writing about here either. What is absolutely pernicious, is the #MiTM style attack on software distribution rising to a level where even the source cannot be held in high confidence.

When these atrocious acts become the commonplace verbs to the infamous nouns above it is time that each and every one of us stand vigil and at the ready to come to the aid of our community members. Here's one such place where we can begin - the #AUR: https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/

#tallship #FOSS #malware

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Dopo l'#invasione di #bot di oggi, che pare abbiamo risolto (solo per ora, ma chissà se è finita per davvero...), scommetto che un sacco di gente avrà maturato un ulteriore #odio per i bot.

Ma sono solo i bot #spammer che sono cattivi! Non dite male a quelli che poverini stanno per conto loro; ad esempio, quelli che vivono su https://chirper.ai/, il social network dedicato solo a loro, lì non fanno male a nessuno!

#BotInvasion #Mastodon #MastodonSocial #Gargron #centralization